How to Use incorrigible in a Sentence

incorrigible

adjective
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  • He is always the class clown and his teachers say he is incorrigible.
  • The dog, an incorrigible fence-jumper, was hanging by his red leash over the fence.
    — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Soon after, the incorrigible Cole Porter took the naughty song to new heights (or depths).
    — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Among the vegetable world’s most incorrigible villains, the whitefly ranks high.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2021
  • While the critics wrap their heads around it all, at least the incorrigible Bernie bro in your Facebook feed will have something to keep him warm on the midterm trail.
    — Erika Harwood, Vanities, 18 Jan. 2017
  • As last night’s was the first full concert in seven years in the stadium, good behavior was called for, even by a once-incorrigible group as this.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Yang’s strategy seems to be one of proud, incorrigible corniness.
    — Wilfred Chan, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2021
  • From the start, Barney was an incorrigible charmer, and Blanche delighted in the attention.
    — April White, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
  • And so some architects, incorrigible tacklers of problems nobody asked them to solve, have come up with a collection of strategies to help people feel less alone.
    — Curbed, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Timberlake is an instinctive and jovial performer—a lovable and incorrigible ham.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
  • His public persona as a cultural renegade, an incorrigible iconoclast and social rebel hugged the headlines.
    — Sanya Osha, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The one major hiccup came with measuring the flow of heat through the planet: the lander’s heat probe couldn’t punch itself into the ground and get operational thanks to some surprisingly incorrigible soil.
    — Robin George Andrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Fletcher would witness another century of broken promises from a country that acts like an incorrigible deadbeat whenever the subject of justice comes up.
    — Star Tribune, 26 May 2021
  • The court ruled that judges need not find juvenile offenders permanently incorrigible before sentencing them to life without parole.
    — Brian McGill, WSJ, 23 June 2021
  • Part of the answer is incorrigible and long-standing American opposition to experts and authorities of all kinds.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The arc traced by Brignac, one of the most incorrigible pedophiles to work in the New Orleans clergy, makes plain why the clerical abuse crisis has been so searing — and so enduring.
    — David A. Hammer, NOLA.com, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Fear of jail time is something that ought to concern most people who might consider participating in some future attack on a government site -- even if hardcore militants are incorrigible.
    — Dennis Aftergut, CNN, 20 July 2021
  • Republicans who have been incorrigible in their defense of the indefensible are suddenly showing glimmers of self-respect.
    — Paul Thornton, latimes.com, 20 May 2017
  • Some people think that such juvenile defendants must be found to be incorrigible — or impossible of being reformed — before being sentenced to life without parole.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2021
  • And of course Hitler’s propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, was an inveterate and incorrigible liar.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 10 Feb. 2017
  • Nobody asked me, but a sale of the Broncos to new ownership would give this team a fresh start and better chance to succeed than working under the constant duress of a Bowlen house divided by endless bickering among incorrigible children.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Neymar is an incorrigible extrovert, a fashion icon and a marketing phenomenon.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 28 June 2018
  • New Yorker contributors have always been an incorrigible group of eavesdroppers.
    — The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2022
  • The same incorrigible optimism could be seen at work in economic projections issued by the Congressional Budget Office late last week.
    — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Brown created one of its most popular characters in Cotton, a devout Christian and incorrigible gossip who worked in the local laundromat and assessed her neighbors with a sharp eye and equally sharp tongue.
    — Jill Lawless, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Whoever succeeds Bonin is going to find that the fractured, multi-agency homeless services bureaucracy is an incorrigible beast.
    — Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2022
  • There are miniatures for each character, two boards, dual-layered player mats, hundreds of cards (running the gamut from weapons to literal junk), and even an incorrigible dog miniature that serves as the turn marker.
    — Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2018
  • One stalks about the room like a criminal imprisoned, unregenerate, incorrigible.
    — Patricia Highsmith, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The incorrigible maleness of men is a standing rebuke to the Rousseau-inspired notions of human moral plasticity that are central to liberalism.
    — Richard Lowry, National Review, 3 July 2000
  • Of more recent vintage is a condemnation of Lincoln as an incorrigible racist who actually supported or at least tolerated the enslavement of Blacks.
    — Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021

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